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Two months into the NHL season, national audiences for hockey telecasts in Canada have shown big increases.

At the CBC, the Hockey Night in Canada viewership has grown in all time slots, with the pregame show making the largest gain. It’s averaging 527,000 viewers, for an increase of 56 per cent over last year.

The Game 1 audience is 1.348 million, up 13 per cent.

Game 2’s 763,000 is 19 per cent higher than last year.

TSN’s NHL telecasts have an average audience of 496,000 viewers, up 21 per cent from last year.